He says Chloe, only 10 years old, who likes to watch YouTube videos of people playing with dolls. So when her aunt Spann called her scared from the bathroom because she was having a baby, He phoned emergencies and took care of his cousin "as he had seen that is done with dolls" while the toilets arrived.
The newborn's mother had not told anyone she was pregnant, but thanks to her niece she recovers in the hospital with her baby.
"I learned from YouTube videos"
Chloe was with her 21-year-old aunt, Dominique Spann, at her home in Fairfax (Virginia, United States) when the woman began to feel bad. He went to the bathroom and called the girl, realizing she was in labor. Chloe tells that her aunt told her "There's a baby" and then passed out, because he had lost a lot of blood.
So the little girl, only 10 years old, cut the umbilical cord, cleaned the newborn, wrapped it and called the emergency room before telling his mother, because he explains:
"I watch YouTube videos about how they take care of babies, because I like to play with dolls, so I used things I knew."
Moments later, doctors arrived and drove Spann and her little boy to Inova Fairfax Hospital. In gratitude to his niece, he has let her choose her son's name: his name is Isaac.
Thanks to the tutorials he had seen, which gave him a notion about how to act, and the great maturity he has shown, he has been able to react to save his cousin's life.
Teach them how to act in an emergency
In cases like Chloe, or Benjamin Ford, a boy from Virginia who saved a classmate when he choked, thanks to a documentary he had seen on TV, one arises the benefits of teaching children how to react to an emergency, from an early age.
So, why not use those videos they like so much to teach them first aid and CPR? Or make it clear that in the event of any medical problem they should ask 112 for help, as Youssef, a nine-year-old boy from Madrid, did, thus saving his mother's life. Also Roman, only four years old, called the emergency department with the help of Siri when his mother passed out at home.
Something as simple as knowing how to dial 112 (both from a landline and from a locked mobile) when the child identifies a serious problem, could save a difficult situation. Therefore, in addition to leave the emergency number in the fridge so that they always have it in sight, it would be good to teach our children:
How to make the emergency call from the landline or without unlocking the mobile.
In what situations you have to call 112: if mom or dad suffer an accident, if anyone faints, if a fire occurs ...
The home address and our telephone number, when they are already able to remember them.
We can make learning more enjoyable and close by teaching them on the Internet the work of the emergency services, police and fire, with a specific case. Role or symbolic games are also a good idea, to simulate emergency situations.
